Rally the troops Part 2 - aka Wish List Part 1

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Thu Mar 20 13:01:42 EDT 2014


Add Geoff Canyon's Navigator and Richard Gaskin's 4Wprops to the list.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Mar 20, 2014 9:01 AM, "Peter Haworth" <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> It would be remiss of me at this point to not point out that there are at
> least two alternatives to the ApplicationBrowser/Project Browser/Inspector
> - my lcStackBrowser and Mats Wilstrand's rIDE.
>
> Both of them offer all the capabilities of the above IDE components plus
> more.  The main difference is that rIDE is free and open source, while I,
> being less altruistic and more money grubbing than Mats, demand payment for
> lcStackBrowser and also have the audacity to password protect it.
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and
> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Richmond Mathewson <
> richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 20/03/14 15:45, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> larry wrote:
>>
>> > When selecting multiple objects (for grouping) it would be really
>> > nice to see a list of those objects instead of the vague "Multiple
>> > Objects" in the Inspector.  I would even settle for just the number
>> > of objects instead of the almost useless "Multiple"
>> >
>> > There have been times when I inadvertently selected 3 objects to
>> > group when I was really trying to group just 2 objects.
>>
>> The Inspector has limited space so it may be difficult to display more
>> than
>> a few items in it, but the Project Browser exhibits the behavior you're
>> looking for.
>>
>>
>> At which point . . .
>>
>> . . . we might like to consider whether Application Browser, Project
>> Browser and Inspector
>> isn't overdoing things a bit, and it might be time to consider rolling 2
>> or
>> 3 of them into one.
>>
>> A while ago somebody round these parts did suggest that maybe the Project
>> Browser wasn't the heir-apparent to replace the
>> Application Browser.
>>
>> Personally, I'd far rather keep the Application Browser as it is and roll
>> the Inspector and the Project Browser up into some sort
>> of Super Inspector.
>>
>> Or, just possibly put some of the Proj. Browser's capabilities over in the
>> App. Browser, and the rest in the Inspector, and then
>> remove the Proj. Browser.
>>
>> However; all I am trying to do here is stimulate a bit of debate now we
>> have had the Proj. Browser for a while.
>>
>> Richmond.
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